Save time and money with IHCA Professional Consulting from IHCA Provider Solutions
Save time and money with IHCA Professional Consulting from IHCA Provider Solutions. IHCA Provider Solutions is a new service line offered by the Iowa Health Care Association to help Iowa long-term care providers with effective solutions to maximize their operations and drive positive results. IHCA Provider Solutions services include professional consulting, group purchasing benefits, endorsed products and the Iowa Health Care Quality Partners (IHCQP) Network program.
What is Professional Consulting?
IHCA’s Professional Consulting provides IHCA members with expert facility-level MDS, EHR and quality consultation services from qualified specialists designed to improve quality and maximize reimbursement.
How Professional Consulting works
Minimum data set (MDS) and electronic health record (EHR) consulting
- Provide access to your data. Interested organizations provide the professional consultant with access to their PointClickCare (PCC) system.
- Get a virtual assessment AND on-site consultation. IHCA’s consultant will first conduct a virtual evaluation of the organization’s data. From there, she will follow up with an on-site visit to present a personalized and customized plan to gain additional efficiencies – and revenue – from the MDS process. During the visit, you also have the chance to ask questions about your MDS process and EHR system and get expert answers on how to make the most of both.
Quality consulting
- Exclusive for IHCQP Network members, quality consulting includes process and system reviews to help providers meet quality goals and metrics, with particular attention paid to specific contracted rehospitalization and infection control goals. IHCA’s consultant works with providers to formulate action plans and assist with implementation.
About our consultants
Daleen Seibold
- Daleen is an MDS certified clinical reimbursement nurse with nearly 30 years of long-term care (LTC) and MDS experience and a solid reputation for providing sound guidance and advice on the MDS process.
Kimber Larson
- Kimber is the Director of Quality Solutions at IHCA and assists with providing consultation related to quality outcome improvement, as part of IHCA’s new Provider Solutions service line. She holds an associate’s degree in nursing (ADN) from Iowa Central Community College and master’s of science in nursing (MSN) degree from Walden University.
How to get started
Click here to view an informational flyer or here to view a video. Click here and scroll to the bottom of the webpage to submit an IHCA Professional Consulting interest form.
For questions, contact Brenda Irlbeck, VP, Quality Improvement and Regulatory Affairs, at 515-978-2204.